She spent her childhood years in Kovno, Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Goldberg.] Reference

Khatskels was born on July 25, 1882, in Kovno (Kaunas).    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

In the 1930s Shner moved to Kovno to study at university.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Shner-Nishmit.] Reference

Meanwhile the Lithuanian capital was fixed at Kaunas (Kovno).    From Wordnik.com.  [1920, July 12] Reference

In 1940 she had an exhibition in Kovno in the Royal Opera House.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art during the Holocaust.] Reference

She and her husband fled to Vilna and then to Kovno in Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rose Shoshana.] Reference

Kovno in 1827, and Hannah learned her trade by observing her mother at work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Midwives - Hannah Sandusky] Reference

During the Soviet occupation, Shner divided her time between Vilna and Kovno.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Shner-Nishmit.] Reference

Were they to be killed on arrival, as those arriving in Kovno had been killed?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sealing Their Fate] Reference

Korczak left for Kovno to search for survivors, partisans and movement members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rozka Korczak-Marla.] Reference

And we had to -- we escaped to Kovno (ph), to Lithuania, the main city of Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Modern Day Heroes - January 2, 2000] Reference

She also chose some of the doctors she knew in Kovno as well as some of the sisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference

Shner, who did not know whether her family had survived, returned to Kovno in late 1945.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sarah Shner-Nishmit.] Reference

Because of her delay in Berlin, her position at the studio in Kovno was given to Michael Gor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miriam Bernstein-Cohen.] Reference

Pauline Newman was born to deeply religious parents in Kovno, Lithuania, sometime around 1890.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pauline Newman.] Reference

Miriam grew up in Kovno, where she completed high school, and in 1936 immigrated to Palestine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miriam Ben-Porat.] Reference

Born in Kovno, where she studied philosophy and Semitic languages, she came to Palestine in 1935.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebrew Theater: Yishuv to the Present.] Reference

He used to live with his son, but his son now works in Kaunas, formerly Kovno, over an hour away.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Jewish Tale from Lithuania. | Jewschool] Reference

Clearly Kovno provides one example of the direct and immediate impact of the warnings of a courier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.] Reference

She returned two years later to her hometown of Kovno — by now the capital of independent Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helene Khatskels.] Reference

In 1922 she returned to Gorzsd and published her first book of poetry, Naye yugent (New Youth, Kovno).    From Wordnik.com.  [Yudica.] Reference

The Jews in Kovno were so completely isolated that they did not know about the killings in nearby Vilna.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kashariyot (Couriers) in the Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust.] Reference

Despite that, mortality rates were lower in the Krakow, Bialystok, Grodno, Vilna, Kovno and Shavli ghettos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women's Health in the Ghettos of Eastern Europe.] Reference

Biographical Information: Labor organizer, union official, and socialist Pauline Newman was born in Kovno, Lithuania.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Information for Pauline Newman] Reference

She was born in Gorzsd, in the Kovno area of Lithuania, near what was at that time the Tsarist border with East Prussia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yudica.] Reference

Her mother supported the family by buying fruit from peasants in the countryside and selling it at the Kovno marketplace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pauline Newman.] Reference

Between St. Petersburg and Kovno or Tauroggen, there are upwards of fifty "stations," at each of which tea can be procured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference

Grosman reached Vilna (Vilnius), where she assumed the task of instructing the graduates in the huge commune in Kovno (Kaunas).    From Wordnik.com.  [Haika Grosman.] Reference

Her M.A. thesis focused on medical and health-care problems in the Lithuanian ghettos of Vilna, Kovno and Shavli (1941 – 1944).    From Wordnik.com.  [Leah Preiss.] Reference

A further fifteen thousand German Jews were sent to Kovno, principally from Berlin, Munich.    From Wordnik.com.  [catallaxyfiles] Reference